Wiligelmo

thumb|400x400px|Modena Cathedral Wiligelmo (also known as Wiligelmus, Gulielmo da Modena, Cousin of Elmo or Guglielmo da Modena) was an Italian sculptor active between c. 1099 and 1120. He was among the earliest sculptors in Italy to produce large-format architectural sculptures.

== Biography == Wiligelmo must have worked at Modena Cathedral from c. 1099 to c. 1110. Some of his sculptures were reassembled in the later 12th century by the Campionesi, and there is some dispute as to their original use, some scholars considering them to have formed part of liturgical furnishings and others insisting that they were always intended for a position on the façade. Wiligelmo was responsible for the four Genesis reliefs, the dedication plaque, the two torch-bearing putti, and the decorative programme of the central portal, all on the west façade; for the many figured capitals of the exterior; and probably also for the series of large single figures from the metopes (Modena, Museo Lapidario Estense), which originally served as demarcations of the bays at the top of the nave walls.